108 ANOMALOSPIZA IMBERBIS 
grass and bush in the Djur country, and along the streams 
which flow from the Kasango Mountains. Prince Paul of 
Wiirtemberg found the species in Southern Senaar, and I 
cannot trace the range further north in Eastern Africa. 
The eggs, generally three in number, are of a pale greenish 
blue, with or without small reddish brown and greyish brown 
spots, and measure on an average 0°75 x 0:58. 
Genus VI. ANOMATOSPIZA. 
Bill very deep and much compressed at the sides; exposed culmen 
straight from the tip to the nostrils and extending far back, parting the 
feathered portion of the forehead; cutting edge of the lower mandible bent 
into a sharp angle at the base, with the posterior side directed in a straight 
line with the centre of the nostrils; structure of the wings and feet the same 
as in Pyromelana and Quelea. 
Type. 
Anomalospiza, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 30 (1901) . . A. imberbdis. 
The genus is represented by one species, which is confined to Tropical 
and South Africa. This species was originally placed in the genus Crithagra, 
no doubt on account of the colouring of the full plumaged male, which much 
resembles that of Serinus flavivertex. The bare culmen receding back 
through the frontal feathers is a character of the Ploceide and not of any 
of the African members of the Fringillide. The small sharply pointed first 
primary, in conjunction with the striped mantle of the female, shows that it 
belongs to the Vidwine. 
Anomalospiza imberbis. (Pl. 31.) 
Crithagra imberbis, Cab. J. f. O. 1868, p. 412, note Zanzibar Coast. 
Anomalospiza imberbis, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1903, p. 168; id. Vég. 
Afr. iii, p. 276 (1904). 
Crithagra chloropsis (non Bp.) Cab. in Decken Reis. iii. p. 30, pl. 9 
(1869). 
Crithagra rendalli, Tristram, Ibis, 1895, p. 180 Transvaal. 
Serinus rendalli, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 292 (1896). 
Anomalospiza rendalli, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 30 (1901). 
